Paraprofessional – Web Communications

Provides direct support and training to organizations on campus to create and maintain their web pages.

Responsibilities:

  • Assist organizations on campus in evaluating their web presence from a content, design, and information architecture point of view; identify opportunities for improvement, and help make those changes as necessary.
    • Assist campus groups that do not currently have a web presence to create one, from content creation to information architecture to building the pages.
    • Conduct quality assurance on existing pages, fixing broken links, misspellings, and identifying out-of-date content.
    • Conduct regular training on the content management system, including online documentation.
    • Remove technical barriers for web authors so they can focus on content; perform advanced technical tasks in our CMS(web forms, navigation changes) as well as tasks that require a good understanding of the web platform (HTML, CSS, and potentially JavaScript).
    • Coordinate and actively participate in the web author community, providing leadership to web authors in supporting one another.
    • Direct responsibility for maintaining certain college web pages.

Required Qualifications:    Recent Bachelor’s degree from Colorado College plus related experience, to include experience with content management systems (dotCMS and WordPress in particular); attention to detail, excellent verbal and written communication skills, the ability to work well with people, a strong collaborative working style and ability to work well within a team, ability and comfort with leading teaching/training sessions, and ability to adapt to new situations and technologies. Preferred Qualifications: Intrinsic motivation/ability to thrive in an unstructured environment; ability and desire to learn quickly and continuously.

Must apply through Colorado College Careers Site: https://employment.coloradocollege.edu/postings/3745

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